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    "id": 94912,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/94912/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Mwiria",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 190,
        "legal_name": "Valerian Kilemi Mwiria",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I am delighted that we have an opportunity to go, as hon. Members, to campaign officially for the new Constitution. It is important because when we debated the Motion on the new Constitution, we could not agree on any amendments. We all agreed - as hon. Members - that the Constitution was okay. It is very unfortunate that we are seeing serious divisions that are sometimes leading to violent demonstrations, people calling others names and leaflets circulating. I hope that we are going to be peaceful; we are not going to be abusive and we are not going to threaten any people because they believe in a different stand from our own. We will let the majority of the people to make a decision about the future of this country. It should not be up to hon. Members to politicize and divide Kenyans as has always been the case when there are these kinds of issues. I also hope that any hon. Member who has been associated with inciting the public along tribal lines or going around with leaflets and so on will be dealt with seriously and strongly by the law. That way, we will not have those kind of people coming in to fight democracy or preventing people from saying democratically what they believe in and not appreciating the fact that we all belong to the same country, for which we must have a new Constitution that will unite all of us for the sake of the progress of this country and those who will come after us. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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